Based on comments made at two panels at this week's Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, both FCC chairman Tom Wheeler and the four commissioners are clearly taking a wait and see attitude.

AT&T Wireless announced earlier this week it would allow video content providers to subsidize the cost of mobile streaming minutes used by viewers of the sponsored content. Public interest groups like Free Press and Public Knowledge said the scheme was anti-competitive because it would favor established video providers who can afford to pay the subsidies over smaller video providers that may have fewer resources.

In a one-on-one question-and-answer session with the Consumer Electronics Association president and CEO Gary Shapiro, Wheeler said he would look at the controversial plan.

"My attitude is let's take a look at what this is. Let’s take a look at how it operates. If it interferes with the operation of the Internet, if it develops into an anti-competitive practice, if it does have some kind of preferential treatment, then that is cause for us to intervene," Wheeler said.

Wheeler’s fellow commissioners, in a panel immediately following, also declined to make any quick decisions.

Based on comments made at two panels at this week's Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, both FCC chairman Tom Wheeler and the four commissioners are clearly taking a wait and see attitude.

AT&T Wireless announced earlier this week it would allow video content providers to subsidize the cost of mobile streaming minutes used by viewers of the sponsored content. Public interest groups like Free Press and Public Knowledge said the scheme was anti-competitive because it would favor established video providers who can afford to pay the subsidies over smaller video providers that may have fewer resources.

In a one-on-one question-and-answer session with the Consumer Electronics Association president and CEO Gary Shapiro, Wheeler said he would look at the controversial plan.

"My attitude is let's take a look at what this is. Let’s take a look at how it operates. If it interferes with the operation of the Internet, if it develops into an anti-competitive practice, if it does have some kind of preferential treatment, then that is cause for us to intervene," Wheeler said.

Wheeler’s fellow commissioners, in a panel immediately following, also declined to make any quick decisions.